Grand Palais, Paris

Group Show

Paris Photo 2024

Nov 5 - 10, 2024

Group Show - Paris Photo 2024

Overview

"We can’t emphasize enough how surreal the experience was... it felt like we were holding a secret."

- Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst

When approaching a new artistic medium like AI, it’s essential to consider the evolution of photography. Over its nearly 200-year history, photography has transformed from a mechanical process into an integral part of contemporary art, shaping how we perceive the world. This transformation mirrors the journey AI art is undergoing today. For Paris Photo 2024, Fellowship presents three critical bodies of work, deepening our exploration into what AI art is and what it can become. These works, from Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, highlight one of the most dynamic periods in generative AI art, revealing the interplay between human creativity and machine learning.
Trevor Paglen’s Evolved Hallucinations is simultaneously an artistic and scientific investigation into GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) models. By organizing his work into corpuses, classes, and neurons, Paglen exposes the limitations and biases of AI image-making systems. His exploration of the AI black box" invites viewers to reflect on how machine learning translates data into imagery, raising questions about the relationship between human perception and machine vision.
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